A note about piano tuners: They often are not in accord. Tuners can’t agree whether their ranks resonate with talent or reek of the tone-deaf. A professional guild sets the bar for training, but most ...

In our noisy, shrill world, Evan Tublitz is on a mission: to bring a little more harmony, a little less discordance. Advertisement Article continues below this ad One piano at a time. He is a ...

Brian Bailey tunes a piano. He's been aurally tuning the instruments for the past 37 years and says there's been decreased need for his services because so many people have switched to digital pianos.

A few years ago Gibson began introducing some clever new technology to a select few guitars which automatically tuned the instrument and kept it there (seen most recently in the gorgeous Firebird X).

Alpena — Tuning a piano takes two hours, a bag full of tools and a trained ear like that of Butch Lyon. Now in his 55th year of professionally tuning pianos, Lyon certainly has a knack for it. “At ...

To get to Steve Misener's piano exhibit, turn at the white farmhouse with the big porch, head straight past the chicken shed and pull up to the warehouse out back. If you wind up at the theological ...

There are thousands of pianos sitting in Australian homes, schools, public spaces, and concert halls. But finding someone to keep them in tune is becoming harder and harder. Tasmanian Symphony ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Unlike violinists or trumpeters, piano players rarely get to perform on their own instruments and must be adaptable. By Anthony Tommasini My piano was ...

From performers to painters, artists of all genres have endured an economic year like no other. This month we've been asking them about their experiences for our series “The Creative Grind.” Today we ...

[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to 1.5 cents which ...